Jim Tumbls.

This past Saturday (January 7) was a beautiful day in the Lehigh Valley, so I pumped up the bike tires and met my Geobuddies at the Plainfield Township Rail-Trail. Knowing that this winter cannot remain so warm and cache-friendly, I’m jumping at nearly any opportunity to get out and find some new parks, trails, and geocaches along the way.

Along the trail there is a nice, long series of caches. We started with GC21EDF and got as far as we could in a few hours. We only made it about 3 miles, finding 13 caches along the way and logging two DNFs. (We’re nearly 100% sure the containers have been lost.)

As usual with the local rail-trails in nice weather, there were plenty of bikers (ahh, ‘bikers’), joggers, and even a coupla horseback riders! We stood aside to let them pass, but it turns out they preferred walking on the grass anyway.

Here’s my bike with some new accoutrements overlooking a nice cliff and stream down below. Newly added features to the bike are the mirror, water bottle holder, rear rack (my cache bag is strapped on with the new bungie cord). Also installed, but inactive on the trail, are my blinky lights (safety fourth, after all)!

The last find of the day was a fun one. The coordinates seemed way off - but from the location posted, we could see this one in a very clever hiding spot! I was volunteered to make the grab, being one of the lightest in the group. It definitely would have been a hard one to get solo.

Here’s hoping we continue to have a mild winter and the bike and cache bag get some more action! There are another 20+ caches on the northern end of this trail which must be added to my logs. :)